ALLS 6(3):10-14, 2015
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“And the
d
ark and stormy
n
ight is
d
rawing
n
igh…….’
5.2.2 Assonance
Assonance is the repetition of similar vowel sounds in closely occurring words. Following instances of assonance are
found in the text.
…..and here is my dusty sh
ir
t smeared with sweat and d
ir
t.
“And the dark and stormy n
i
ght is drawing
n
i
gh…….’
5.2.3 Consonance
There is repetition of ‘s’,‘t’ and ‘d’ sounds in these lines.
…… hi
s
s
kin i
s
s
unburned.
‘……and here i
s
my du
st
y
sh
ir
t s
meared
with
s
wea
t
and dir
t
.’
‘Why ha
s
s
weat
d
rie
d
su
dd
enly on your forehea
d
?’
5.2.4 Rhyme
“Then she smiled and said
to
me
:
You are exactly what I wanted you
to
be
.”
6.
Findings
The writer has made use of apostrophes and rhetorical questioning to give the story form of a speech. In fact the whole
story is an address to the mates and friends and the beauties of the garden. ‘Mates and friend’ is repeated 5 times.
There is a lot of sound repetitions in the story. The writer has made abundant use of sound devices in a compact way.
He has made selection of such words and organized them in such way that different sound devices are incorporated
within the stretch of a single sentence. One such instance is
‘……and here is my dusty shirt
smeared
with
sweat
and dirt.’
In this sentence there is repetition of the initial consonant sounds ‘d’ and ‘s’ in dusty and dirt and smeared and sweat.
Then there is repetition of ‘er’ sound in shirt and dirt. There can also be noticed the repetition of ‘t’ sound in dusty,
shirt, sweat and dirt. Hence in this sentence writer has made use of alliteration, assonance and consonance all at the
same time.
7.
Discussion
The story works at two levels of meaning. At one level there is a gardener who is addressing his fellow gardeners before
his departure. At the deeper level the story is a farewell speech in a metaphorical way. The actions of all the other
characters in the story are made known to us solely from the speech of the protagonist, as he goes along narrating that
what they are doing and what they are saying and what they are thinking. Thus, by using this technique, the writer
achieves two ends. Firstly, all the action is conveyed to the reader in a very economical way. Secondly, a strong bond
between the protagonist and the other characters in the story is rendered, where all the other gardeners are worried for
the protagonist and the protagonist too is well aware of their concerns, without them addressing him directly, and he is
consoling them saying that he has to go now but they must keep the garden in order, and take care of the beauties of the
garden, as he is a great admirer of them and that they will remain in his eternal songs. The ‘eternal songs’ might be the
reference to the works of the writer himself. In this way it can be said that the writer is referring to himself as the
gardener who has always admired and ‘loved beauty as a whole’, and that even though he would be gone but his songs
will remain forever. The sweetheart is the personification of death and the beauties of the garden are the things or values
cherished and valued by the writer.
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